[Qgis-developer] Future of the GDALTools plugin

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi all,

some time ago I submitted a QEP about removing fTools and GDALTools
plugins and replacing them with Processing [0, 1]. fTools plugin was removed,
but GDALTools still here. IMHO it would be good to drop GDALTools in QGIS 3.0.

Right now Processing offers same functionality as GDALTools plugin and even
tools which are not available in GDALTools. Also it receives much more attention
and bugfixes. For example, if a user creates with the field calculator
a new column
in a vector to be used for some operation within GDALTools, then this column
is not recognized (but it is in the equivalent tool in Processing) and
this is not
only one problem.

Are there any objections to remove GDALTools?

[0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/54
[1] http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QEP-Dropping-fTools-GdalTools-in-favor-of-Processing-td5247519.html

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Alexander Bruy